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| | | Dare2Draw presents: creatorCODE
At FanfaireNYC @BOOTH 505 with
Ann Nocenti, Khary Randolph, Steven Zelin, Gamal Hennessy and Simon Fraser the D2D Team...many more!
Come by and support the future at Art and Design High School's Fanfaire NYC! |
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| Saturday, at 3 PM: Khary Randolph will be at the D2D booth 505 |
| | Boston born and Brooklyn based, Khary Randolph graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2000 with a BFA in Cartooning & Illustration.
In the years since, he has worked on properties from some of the biggest media companies in the world, such as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, 20th Century Fox, ESPN, Upper Deck, Coca-Cola, & Sony. Some of these include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Voltron, X-Men, G.I. Joe, Spider-Man, Boondocks, and Teen Titans. Full resume available upon request.
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| | Saturday, at 4 PM: Ann Nocenti will be at the D2D booth 505 |
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Annie Nocenti is a journalist, writer, editor and filmmaker. She teaches “bootcamp filmmaking,” most recently to at-risk teenagers in Kingston, NY, to Cherokee Native Americans at the Tulsa International Film Festival, and in Norway for the Indigenous Film Circle.
She taught filmmaking in Haiti for two years. After the earthquake in January 2010 she spent four months producing films — reportage, short docs, a feature documentary, and commissioned PSAs for various NGOs, — with her students at the Cine Institute in Jacmel, Haiti. She sold the short documentary series she produced with her students to CBC TV Canada.
Her journalism has appeared in Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, PRINT, Filmmaker, Scenario, and more. She has written about Baluchistan (The Most Expensive Road Trip in the World, Best Travel Writing 2008) and made a documentary about the resistance fighters in Baluchistan (with Wendy Johnson) called The Baluch. Her feature script Taking Chances was produced in 2009. Nocenti is also known for her work in comics, writing Daredevil, editing the X-Men, and creating the characters Longshot, Typhoid, Spiral, Blackheart and many more. Nocenti is currently writing Green Arrow. She was the script editor of The Fifth Night, a screenplay reading series, and the editor of Scenario, a screenwriting magazine. Her series about teaching in Haiti, Goudou Goudou, can be found at HILOBROW
Her latest project was Magic City, a street art exhibit in Dresden Germany.
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| | Sunday, at 10:30A - 11:30A • Black Box: LL2 meet and hear Steven Zelin [Freelance isn’t Free - How to Build Yourself as an Artist and Run a Business] |
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ABOUT THE SINGING CPA
For many years it’s has been my great pleasure to write songs and perform them, mostly locally, for business groups, for gatherings of all kinds, and for kids.
Along the way I became the singing cpa, probably best known in New York for playing (guitar) and singing (my songs) on the steps of the Main Post Office in Manhattan on tax deadline night.
How does something like this come about? Well, it struck me that most people think of accounting as drudgery and accountants as squinty-eyed people hunched over ledger sheets and tax forms. Not! So part of my impulse was to put myself in a public venue and make fun of my own career, really. The other part was to maybe make people laugh at what is undoubtedly one of the most stressful times of the year for most of us.
From the feedback I get every year, it seems that I accomplished both! The Wall Street Journal has taken notice (front page yet!) The New York Times has taken notice. Buzz has been generated. Blogs have been written. And along the way I’ve become ‘that really smart tax guy who writes and sings funny stuff’.
Have guitar (and guts, and some pretty good songs), will travel.
Wishing you a wonderful year.
Maybe I’ll see you at the Post Office on tax day.
Sincerely,
Steven
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| Sunday, at 10:30A - 11:30A • Black Box: LL2 meet and hear Gamal Hennessy [Freelance isn’t Free - How to Build Yourself as an Artist and Run a Business] |
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Professional History
I am an experienced entertainment transactions attorney with an expertise in comic book publishing and comic IP licensing. During my career, I’ve represented major corporate clients including AfterShock, Amazon, Mad Cave Studios, and Marvel, as well as independent entertainment professionals and independent publishers.
Central Park Media gave me my first real taste of entertainment law. As general counsel of a startup publishing company, I acted as the sole owner of all drafting and negotiating of international IP licenses, work for hire agreements and statements of work associated with anime and manga production. Our catalog included everything from the painfully tragic Grave of the Fireflies to the infamous Legend of the Overfiend and everything in between.
In 2002, Marvel brought me in to handle their new international publishing department. My main function was helping Marvel break into the Japanese market, but I also initiated, negotiated, drafted, and managed compliance for international licenses associated with Marvel entertainment IP. This work covered consumer goods, film, interactive media, and publishing in Europe, South America, and the Middle East. In addition, I drafted many of the exclusive talent deals Marvel began to set up around the time Ultimates began to gain traction. I left Marvel soon after the Ultimates, X-men and Spider-Man deals were established in Japan.
After Marvel, I began helping independent IP creators and freelance artists with their contracts and licensing issues. I’ve given lectures at the University of Albany and Comics Experience. Over the years, I've helped negotiate creator-owned deals with AfterShock, managed the contracts and IP matters for Mad Cave, developed publishing agreements for independent creators, and collaboration contracts for new comic teams.The last major client for C3 was Amazon Publishing, where I drafted and negotiated domestic and international publishing agreements for the Amazon imprints.
While I continue to negotiate contracts for my clients, I’m also writing a book on the business and legal aspects of the independent comic book industry. My goal is to help comic creators and independent publishers understand their legal position and give them the tools to get the most out of their work.
Have fun.
Gamal
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| | | Sunday, from 12-2PM: Simon Fraser will be at D2D booth 505 Drawing! |
| ABOUT Dare2Draw friend and mentoring artist
"Simon Fraser is a well traveled Scots Comics Artist, living in NYC. He's known for co-creating Nikolai Dante for 2000ad and drawing Judge Dredd, Dr Who and Kingsman among many other things."
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| Help bring Dare2Draw to Art Schools › |
| | | | Message from the Dare2Draw founder Charles D Chenet - "Sincero" |
| An idea that comes from identifying the basic needs required to inform and empower all cartoonists and help create a better industry standard, as the comics culture continues to grow and mature.
What is D2D's creatorCODE?
"A simple code, that creators support creators."
FF is a new local comix show hosted by the parents of the PTA...from the High School of Art and Design. (Art is the first thing cut at schools.)
Up-and-coming creators: You are the best of us. Your are the future!
We love comics. We are COMIX!
"We're stronger together!"
CD.Chenet, Creator and Founder of Dare2Draw -
"Sincero Cartel" |
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